Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in London is seeking an enthusiastic psychologist to join their Complex Neurodevelopmental Service at Evelina Children’s Hospital. This permanent part-time role involves providing psychological assessments and interventions for children with complex needs, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care. Ideal candidates should have experience in autism and related neurodevelopmental challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience providing specialist psychological assessments and intervention.
• Understanding of neurodevelopmental needs such as autism.
• Ability to provide input into multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychological assessments using a variety of methods.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to support diagnosis.
• Provide recommendations based on assessments.

Skills

Experience with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties

Psychological assessments

Multidisciplinary team collaboration

Clinical interviews

Education

Relevant degree in psychology

Job description

We are an innovative and welcoming team who are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist to join our Complex Neurodevelopmental Service, including the Complex Feeding Team, at the Evelina Children’s Hospital.



This is a great opportunity to work collaboratively in embedded multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist assessments, consultation and intervention for children from the South East regions and beyond. The service also provides a clinic for children with complex feeding difficulties including those with a diagnosis of ARFID.



We see children and young people with a range of suspected developmental needs which are often complex and multiple in nature (including autism, epilepsy, attention, learning, behaviour that challenges and other complex medical health presentations). The ideal post holder would be experienced in working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties such as autism.



This is a permanent 0.5FTE (2 ½ day) post.

· To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use of a range methods (including cognitive assessment, validated tests (e.g. ADOS-2), self-report measures, rating scales, observations and clinical interviews with children, families and other agencies)

· To work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality integrated care, contributing to diagnosis and formulation of young people’s neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.

· To provide input into the Complex Feeding Team, including intervention to families of children with feeding difficulties.

· To provide recommendations for support based on psychological formulation and evidence base.

· Offer psychological assessments and intervention of children and young people presenting with neurodevelopmental needs such as autism and associated difficulties as part of a multidisciplinary team clinic

· Supervision of assistant, trainee and undergraduate psychology students

For full details please see job description.

Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification


This advert closes on Sunday 3 Aug 2025